Mattyblue

Some sesh that chaddy lad!

Know a few folk that are going to sup in Chorley before and get the bus straight to Horwich.

500 tickets still sold for Derby despite red button. I couldnt imagine us taking that many more midweek if there was no live coverage. Just shows that there is a hardcore that will follow the team regardless.

Interesting that both Stoke and West Brom since relegation have reduced their prices to around £25, I imagined they’d be up at £30.

They’ll be charged £27 - Cat A

Aye! It’s a shame more than anything. Obviously nothing we can do about Sky or trains, but £30 is just total nonsense for lower reaches of the second tier and has put to bed any chance of a decent following. Lets just hope Preston (usually £24 or so) stays at 3pm.

Plus live on Sky, plus no trains (bus replacement). Rovers fans just don’t pay that kind of money in big numbers, doubt we’ll even sell that initial 2,000 or so.

There will always be a ‘churn’ as John Williams put it if of people like yourself, I probably agree that it will be a slow process generally, but we aren’t far off the 10k now. We know it is very easy to lose fans but bloody difficult getting them back. But what I would say is this summer was the first one in a decade in which you had a positive fan base engaged with the club and I don’t think we grasped that opportunity.

You are right. At the start of the Coyle season, we had between 9,500 and 10,000 home fans a game. Now it’s 11,500-12,000. However, the appointment of Coyle is what saw crowds plummet to that four figure level. We are now back to where we were in the final Bowyer/Lambert season. It was Waggott himself that wanted 10,000 season ticket sales, it hasn’t happened, so obviously something went awry.

Fair enough AAK, but if you are struggling to form a relationship with this current team and manager then I’m not sure you will again...

I thought there was a decent atmosphere second half...

Most posters seem to be saying we played well and were unlucky Gav? Even AdamRochina!

‘Footballers should be judged on their performances and nothing else’ Ergo you wouldn’t have an issue signing Johnson as he wasn’t judged on his football but something else entirely. You said it chaddy, no clever arsery needed. Stop saying daft things and you won’t keep getting quoted on them.

We’ll be on Sky easy a dozen times - I.e any non 3pm game...

Hasn’t Twitter been like this for a couple of years or so?

Big run of matches coming up roversfan99, you just need to take one game at a time, no distractions!

According to this you can stream through ESPN+ https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2018/04/soccer-fans-rejoice-hundreds-of-matches-and-exclusive-content-to-be-available-on-espn/

The club took its eyes off the (cricket) ball years ago. Seems largely now to be a conferencing and events operation with a cricket club bolted on. Having dinosaurs like Allott still pulling the strings on the playing side says it all.

Lancs looking doomed...

I would expect that as a minimum. Not exactly proactive.

As blueboy says the ‘Final 6’ and ‘Final 10’ bundles were no cheaper pro rata than half or full season tickets. We are a club that is heavily reliant on season ticket sales, we just don’t sell many walk ons - no surprise at those prices, you many add! Therefore, knowing just how important ST sales are for our bottom line, how were lapsed or those on the database chased for renewals/purchases? Why wasn’t everyone at the Oxford game given a flyer or contacted? Why weren’t they actually on sale on the day against Oxford? Other clubs have ticket office staff who’s job over the summer is to follow up on said fans. A non renewer or long term lapsed fan will be able to tell us - were you contacted by the club?

Category A, B etc. are simply a ruse to rip off away fans. Any club who they expect to bring 2,000+ will be A, regardless of the stature of the game, Sky coverage etc. Trying to use an attractive game like Villa or Leeds as a way to bring more home fans to the ground just doesn’t come into their thinking.

I believe Waggott wanted a substantial increase, in reality we hardly increased them at all on what we had after half season ticket sales in January. It’s for him to workout how that came to be. Were hordes of lapsed/new fans suddenly going to emerge to watch us bob around in Championship mid table? No, but I do think a 17% rise in price did put the brakes on any promotion/feel good factor in regards to more bums on seats.

I think there’s still some excellent debates on here, just seems to be less of them these days. An increase in traffic doesn’t seem to have led to an increase in contributors.

It's torturous just watching him bat. Cook going probably means his place to Sri Lanka is saved, but an opening partnership of Jennings and a fella on debut doesn't exactly inspire confidence.